Jersey City is revamping the way its cops earn money from off-duty jobs, with city officials saying the proposed changes would save local businesses money and put eight more officers on the beat.

Under the proposed changes, two civilians would arrange for off-duty police staffing (currently, two police officers in each of the city’s four districts handle that administrative task), and a requirement that each officer be paid four hours minimum for each job would be eliminated.

The measure, up for initial approval at next week’s City Council meeting, would also take some authority away from the police chief when it comes to staffing off-duty officers and give them to civilians.

City officials also plan to create a schedule of how many off-duty officers are necessary for a particular type of assignment. The schedule would be publicized and include "an appeal mechanism,” the city says.

“We’ve listened to the small business owners and organizations who hire the off-duty officers and what they told us was that not only was this process arbitrary, but that the officers lacked oversight and often the business owners felt like victims of price-gouging,” Mayor Steve Fulop said in a statement.

Officers make anywhere from $35 per hour to $65 per hour for off duty work, depending on whether it's on a construction site, at an event with over 5,000 people or a city project.

The city pockets $5 per hour for administrative costs, which it wants to boost to $15.

The work can be lucrative. Last year, officers made $9.6 million from private businesses that hire off-duty cops for various assignments, including traffic control outside construction sites and security at private parties.

One officer, Craig Kutiak, made $107,824 in off-duty work, in addition to his $109,097 salary, according to city payroll records. 36 officers made more than $50,000 from off-duty work in 2012, the records show.

The plan does not please the local police union, which says it was not consulted about its creation and only knew about it when The Jersey Journal today called seeking comment.

"We are concerned about any proposal which suggests that a civilian employee has the proper expertise to determine what is and is not a public safety issue," Carmine Disbrow, president of the Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association, said in a statement. "Suggestions that at any point any of our officers acted in anything less than a professional manner are also disappointing, and we look forward to those statements being clarified before the men and women of the Jersey City Police Department."

Fulop’s proposal would also throw some work the way of city crossing guards, who are technically employees of the police department. If a job entails only traffic control, crossing guards would be eligible.